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The Balanced Security Imperative

Balanced security requires firms to transition from treating privacy and data security as compliance requirements to one that champions privacy and uses its technology prowess to differentiate the brand. Any misstep with or changes to the IT infrastructure can and will exacerbate complexity, which is why building a balanced security strategy is so important. A balanced security strategy negates complexity by keeping up with the pace of technological change as well as industry disruption and evolving regulatory compliance. In March 2019, Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the evolving security trends and technology needed to protect and enable employees. Our study found that empowering employees while adhering to security protocols improves employee productivity. Forrester conducted an online survey of 887 senior business and IT decision makers to explore this topic.

Managing Security Risk And Compliance In A Challenging Landscape (updated)

Security leaders have been in front of boards and executive committees long enough to know that security metrics that simply portray statistics from monitoring tools, or count the number of malware attacks, add relatively little value to strategy and budget decisions. Protecting sensitive customer and company data shouldn’t be just a compliance obligation, it should be a business imperative. This is exactly why the right technology partners will help push security, risk, and compliance objectives forward. In March 2019, Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the evolving security trends and technology needed to protect and enable employees. Our study found that empowering employees while adhering to security protocols improves employee productivity. Forrester conducted an online survey of 887 senior business and IT decision makers to explore this topic.

State of the HR Profession Report: How COVID-19 is impacting Human Resources in small businesses across the U.S

To illuminate the current state of the human resources industry in relation to the COVID-19 crisis, GoCo conducted a study on the challenges and priorities of hundreds of HR professionals. Download your free copy of the report today to learn exactly how the HR profession is faring amid shelter-in-place orders, emergency family medical leave (EFMLA), and hiring freezes.

Key takeaways include:

• Major challenges HR professionals are facing
• How HR pros are communicating new policies and procedures to their employees
• Steps businesses are taking to mitigate the economic impacts of the COVID-19
crisis
• Stories & advice from your peers to help navigate uncertain times

Report – Forrester Total Economic Impact of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) study found enterprise customers realize 445% ROI with MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform over three years. Download this report for an analysis of the total value of integration for enterprise customers.

Key customer benefits:

$7.8M in benefits within three years.
4X projects worked on over three years.
90% developer time freed from maintaining APIs and integrations.
The Total Economic Impact™ Of MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, August 2019.

Report – Forrester Total Economic Impact of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) study found enterprise customers realize 445% ROI with MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform over three years. Download this report for an analysis of the total value of integration for enterprise customers.

Key customer benefits:

$7.8M in benefits within three years.
4X projects worked on over three years.
90% developer time freed from maintaining APIs and integrations.
The Total Economic Impact™ Of MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, August 2019.

Report: The Orca Security 2020 State of Public Cloud Security

The world of cybersecurity isn’t fair. Security teams need to secure everything, but attackers need only find one weak link. For most organizations, cloud workload security is dependent upon the installation and maintenance of security agents across all assets. This rarely happens, as this report shows.

Download the Orca Security 2020 State of Public Cloud Security Report to learn:

• Benchmark your public cloud security posture against your peers
• The weak links and exploitation paths attackers are looking for
• The most common authentication issues hiding inside public cloud estates
• 4 key recommendations to avoid a major breach

A Galaxy of IT Insights

At Eaton, we've always strived to get to know IT pros and their needs by listening to them directly. Recently we launched My IT Galaxy, a questionnaire-slash-infographic creator, where nearly 900 IT pros told us about their day-to-day realities, infrastructure, and stance on pizza toppings.

Our survey included a spectrum of environments, organizations and industries, including education, healthcare, finance, and retail. And so, a whole galaxy of IT insights was born. Here are some of the results.

A Galaxy of IT Insights

At Eaton, we've always strived to get to know IT pros and their needs by listening to them directly. Recently we launched My IT Galaxy, a questionnaire-slash-infographic creator, where nearly 900 IT pros told us about their day-to-day realities, infrastructure, and stance on pizza toppings.

Our survey included a spectrum of environments, organizations and industries, including education, healthcare, finance, and retail. And so, a whole galaxy of IT insights was born. Here are some of the results.

COVID-19 Remote Work Just Broke Your Processes: Here’s What To Do About It

Automating business processes to win, serve, and retain customers has been an imperative for years. With COVID-19 sending workers home to work en masse, the goal for many has become restoring manual processes that have either failed completely or been crippled. Read this report to learn how to mitigate the current business disruptions and set a foundation for faster, more agile process automation going forward.

The State of Email Security 2020

Global business is interspersed with a diversity of industrial sectors, united by a single, common communication thread that is key to any business: email connectivity.

At the close of 2019, many IT and IT security decision makers were planning to bolster their security posture with protections at the email gateway, within their organizations to protect employees and customers, and beyond their organizations’ four walls to uphold brand trust. These protections are still underway; in fact, they are more critical than ever.

At the same time, comprehensive data from Mimecast Threat Center indicates a severely negative impact to businesses in the first half of 2020, and experts predict we’ll see these attacks for months to come. Threat actors are relying heavily on impersonation and brand exploitation to take advantage of the uncertainty during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The usual email and web security defenses are no longer good enough; to prevent and protect your business against threat actors now and in the future, it’s critical to integrate security awareness training as well as to protect your online brand.

Conversational Geek: Office 365 Risk Mitigation

The right third-party solution can ensure email is protected against advanced cyberattacks and guarantee service availability SLA – all while leveraging your investment in Microsoft Office 365™.

But, are the three key areas of concern around Office 365 email you should be aware of?

Download this report to discover the key features and functions you need to address security, data assurance and continuity for Office 365 email – and what to look for in a single solution that does it all.

2020 Upskilling: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report

Successful digital transformation requires quality tools and secure systems, but it also needs the right culture. What human skills do business leaders find most valuable in operations? Which functional skills are growing in importance in development? What job titles are on the rise?

The Upskilling 2020 report explores the state of DevOps and human transformation, as well as the core skills required for successful DevOps adoption. This report reveals the emerging themes among IT professionals in the midst of digital transformation, including the difficulties of carrying out DevOps transformations and hiring the right humans. It also shares specific skills that are most needed among DevOps humans and examines the progress and importance of upskilling at the enterprise. The 2020 report offers insights from both a global and regional perspective.

The Upskilling 2020: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report answers these questions and more through research conducted by the DevOps Institute and sponsored by HCL Software DevOps. You can download your free copy of the report by filling out the form on this page.

Becoming Masters of Data and Analytics

To stay competitive in an increasingly digital world, businesses must become masters of data. By 2020, more than seven billion people and companies, and at least 35 billion devices, will be wired to the web. Success now depends on not only keeping up with fast-paced digital innovation, but also harnessing the continual data explosion it creates; and this will mean a sizable shift in the way companies handle their insights.

In this new report, Gartner identifies the challenges digitization presents for organizations, and how professionals such as CIOs can harness its key drivers; focusing on six core strategic planning areas. This research provides a multi-regional, cross-industry view of the approaches and tools that will be critical for organizations to not only survive, but thrive.

Forrester Report: Customer Data Maturity Powers The Modern Enterprise

With the growing importance of customer insights in organizations, the role of analytics to extract insight from customer data and embed it back into organizational processes is at the forefront of business transformation. This increased profile has elevated the customer insights role from data geeks feeding the marketing funnel to critical change agents and strategic business partners. It has also made it crucial for companies to have a coherent and consistently executed customer data strategy. In order to seize the opportunity presented by this shift in data’s role, companies must plot a deliberate strategic course — beginning with a clear-eyed assessment of their current capabilities and needs.

In late 2018, Tealium commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the state of customer data strategies today. We found that very few companies can claim to have mastered customer data today, but those who achieve the highest levels of maturity enjoy significant benefits and support for their business initiatives.

The State of Email Security 2020

Global business is interspersed with a diversity of industrial sectors, united by a single, common communication thread that is key to any business: email connectivity.

At the close of 2019, many IT and IT security decision makers were planning to bolster their security posture with protections at the email gateway, within their organizations to protect employees and customers, and beyond their organizations’ four walls to uphold brand trust. These protections are still underway; in fact, they are more critical than ever.

At the same time, comprehensive data from Mimecast Threat Center indicates a severely negative impact to businesses in the first half of 2020, and experts predict we’ll see these attacks for months to come. Threat actors are relying heavily on impersonation and brand exploitation to take advantage of the uncertainty during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The usual email and web security defenses are no longer good enough; to prevent and protect your business against threat actors now and in the future, it’s critical to integrate security awareness training as well as to protect your online brand.